Vancouver: CO2 blamed for wind and rain

Vancouver plans to face climate change head-on

The city of Vancouver has designed a climate change “adaptation” strategy to tackle a potential increase in street flooding, sewer backups, damaged forests and heat-related illnesses by 2050...
“The climate is clearly changing and, in many instances, we are observing changes at the most extreme end of the projections made a decade ago,” the report states.
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She wouldn’t say how much the strategy was expected to cost, saying much of the work is based around policy decisions and work that is already being done. The report suggests costs could be as high as $750,000 for a coastal flood risk assessment and $200,000 for an urban Forest Management Plan.

“It [a climate change plan] literally saves lives,” Reimer said. “What we know from science is that you can’t ignore these changes.”

Climate change-related events have already cost the city. At the peak of the 2006 windstorm, 250,000 BC Hydro customers in the region were without power — many of them for multiple days — while the city spent more than $10 million to deal with the problem. And in September 2010, heavy rainfall in Vancouver prompted 173 claims against the city and an additional 23 flood reports.